Preventing Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: What Can Canada and Canada's Parliament Do?

21 November 2006

A Panel Discussion Featuring:

• Juan Mendez, Special Advisor on Genocide Prevention to the Secretary General of the United Nations
• Kathy Vandergrift, Co-ordinator, Sudan Inter-Agency Reference Group
• Allan Thompson, Professor, Carleton School of Journalism
• Don Hubert, Director, Human Security Policy division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• Gerald Caplan, Author of Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide
• Moderator: The Hon. Dr. Irwin Cotler, M.P.

Presented by Carleton University and the All-Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Public Affairs, Department of Political Science, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, African Studies Committee, and the Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Carleton University.

30 October 2006

Foreign Policy Under a Conservative Government: An Interim Report Card

Annual Conference of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
7:30-5:00, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa

Co-sponsored with CDFAI, CIGI, Université Laval, UQÀM, Queen's University, Research Group in International Security, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Canada Institute.

14 September 2006

World Security and the European Union

Auditorium of the National Research Council (NRC), 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, 4:00-6:00 pm.

Kjell Engelbrekt, Stockholm University and Swedish National Defence College, "The European Union: An Emerging Strategic Actor?"

Jack Smith, Director, The Proteus Canada Institute and Director, Science and Technology Foresight, Office of the National Science Advisor, "The Protean Critical Thinking Game"

Introductory remarks by David Law Senior Fellow, Security Sector Reform, DCAF, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

Co-sponsored with the Carleton University Centre for European Studies, Embassy of Sweden, Proteus Canada Institute, Office of the National Science Advisor and presented as part of the Fall 2006 Canadian Challenges Series.

11-13 May 2006

‘Canada and the Future of Peacekeeping’

Dwight Mason, Senior Associate, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC

CSDS-sponsored Keynote Address at the Conference, "50+ Years: Canada and Peacekeeping - History, Evolutions, Perceptions"

12:00-1:30, Morriset, 2nd Floor, University of Ottawa

9-10 March 2006

‘After the Fall: Theory and Practice of Post-Intervention Security’

CSDS Annual Conference

Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa

Conference Report and Papers